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Wildfires in Metema

Metema, Ethiopia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,671 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 39° · 14 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 39° · 15 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 15 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 20 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 39° · 15 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 18 % · 24 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,671
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
4
fires
3,808
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Metema

  1. 741 ha Chilga fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,073 ha Metema fire, December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,857 ha Metema fire, January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 0 ha Mirab Armacho fire, December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,684 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Africa, Code for Ethiopia (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).